Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:
Now the God of patience and consolation. Such beautiful names of God are taken from the graces which He inspires: as "the God of hope" (Romans 15:13), "the God of peace" (Romans 15:33), etc.
Grant you to be like minded, х to (G3588) auto (G846) fronein (G5426)] - 'of the same mind,'
According to Christ Jesus. It is not mere unanimity which the apostle seeks for them; for unanimity may be in evil, which is to be deprecated. But it is "according to Christ Jesus" - after the sublimest model of Him whose all-absorbing desire was to do, 'not His own will, but the will of Him that sent Him' (John 6:38).